Media in Hamilton, Ontario

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The following is a list of media outlets for Hamilton, Ontario:

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Radio

Hamilton has seven FM stations and three AM radio stations. Two of the stations are operated by local post-secondary institutions, one is news/talk and one airs a comedy format.

On September 19, 2007, the CBC organized a meeting in Hamilton at the Hamilton Convention Centre to discuss the idea of bringing a new radio station to the city, citing that "Hamilton was the largest, and most underrepresented city in the country in terms of media coverage." [1] In early 2012, the CBC confirmed its final plans for a new local news service in Hamilton; see "web" section below for further details.

Most of Toronto's radio stations also cover Hamilton.

To see a list of defunct radio stations in Hamilton, see Canadian Communications Foundation. [2]

Television

Hamilton is part of the Toronto television market and receives most broadcast television from Toronto. CHCH is the only television whose studios and operations are based out of Hamilton, and provides local programming. CITS is an owned & operated of the Yes TV system, but does not air any local programming, and is based out of neighboring Burlington. CBC Television (CBLT-DT), City (CITY-DT), Radio-Canada Télé (CBLFT-DT) and TVOntario (CICA-DT) are received directly from the networks' Toronto transmitters on the CN Tower. CBC once had an affiliate in Hamilton, as CHCH was affiliated with the network from its sign on in 1954, until 1961. Global can be received from CIII-DT's Broadcast relay station in Paris, or the station's Toronto transmitter on the CN Tower; CTV service may be received either from CFTO-DT (Toronto) or CKCO-DT (Kitchener), with both stations available on most local cable systems. CTV Two is provided over-the-air by a local rebroadcaster, due to the distance of the CKVR-DT main transmitter in Barrie from Hamilton.

Television stations based in Hamilton include:

OTA virtual channel (PSIP)OTA actual channel Rogers Cable Cogeco Source Cable Call signNetworkNotes
11.115 (UHF)121212 CHCH-DT Independent
35.135 (UHF)712218 CHCJ-DT CTV 2 Rebroadcaster of CKVR-DT (Barrie)
36.136 (UHF)191735 CITS-DT Yes TV
––141414– Cable 14 Community channel operated jointly by all Hamilton cable providers

In addition, many of the Buffalo, New York TV stations reach Hamilton over the air and some are carried on local cable.

Cable service in Hamilton is divided up between two different cable companies: Cogeco and Rogers Cable (the former third independent company, Source Cable, is now a Rogers subsidiary). [3] Each system holds a monopoly in a specific part of Hamilton.

Print

Newspapers

Other publications

Web

In 2012, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced its plans for a new local news service in Hamilton. [4] With the Hamilton area already within the broadcast range of CBC Radio and CBC Television's services in Toronto, it was not financially or technically feasible for the public broadcaster to launch new conventional radio or television stations in Hamilton; accordingly, the corporation has developed a new model, with Hamilton as its test project, to launch a local digital service that would be accessible on the Internet and telecommunications devices such as tablets and smartphones. [4] The project, CBC Hamilton, launched in May 2012. [5]

Local websites include:

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CKVR-DT is a television station in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the CTV 2 system. It is owned and operated by Bell Media alongside Toronto-based CTV flagship CFTO-DT, channel 9 ; it is also sister to 24-hour regional news channel CP24. CKVR-DT's studios are located at 33 Beacon Road in Barrie, and its transmitter is located near Essa Road/Highway 27 on the city's southwest side.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CKXT-DT</span> Former TV station in Toronto

CKXT-DT was a broadcast television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that broadcast to much of southern and eastern Ontario. It was owned by Quebecor Media through its Groupe TVA unit. Although beginning as a general interest independent station carrying a typical schedule of entertainment and information programming, by the time of the station's closure on November 1, 2011, the station had been converted into an over-the-air simulcast of Quebecor's cable news channel, Sun News Network. The station transmitted on channel 52 in Toronto.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CHCH-DT</span> Independent TV station in Hamilton, Ontario

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CBET-DT is a CBC Television station in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station's studios are located on Riverside Drive West and Crawford Avenue in Downtown Windsor, and its transmitter is located near Concession Road 12 in Essex.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">CBMT-DT</span> CBC Television station in Montreal

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">CIII-DT</span> Global flagship television station in Toronto

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">CJNT-DT</span> Citytv station in Montreal

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">CICT-DT</span> Global TV station in Calgary

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CHML is a radio station, broadcasting at 900 AM in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. CHML's transmitter power is 50,000 watts using an eight-tower directional antenna array with a signal oriented largely west-northwest to east-southeast, covering the Niagara Peninsula and Western New York, USA strongest; the array is located between Peter's Corners and Cambridge. Its studios are located on West Main Street in Hamilton. The station airs a news–talk format branded as Global News Radio 900 CHML. CHML is owned by Corus Entertainment.

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Norm Marshall was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster. He and Larry O'Brien were commentators for the first telecast of a Grey Cup football game 29 November 1952 on CBLT Toronto. CBC paid both Marshall and O'Brien CAD$250 for this inaugural broadcast. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1989.

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Kenneth David Soble was a Canadian broadcasting executive, who became the owner of radio station CHML and was one of the founders of CHCH-TV, both of which were in Hamilton, Ontario. Under his management, CHCH withdrew from the CBC Television Network in 1961 to become Canada's first independent television station. He was also the original applicant for what would eventually become Canada's Global Television Network, although the application underwent numerous changes before being transferred to a separate company, unrelated to Soble's Niagara Television, in 1970. One indication of the esteem in which he was held was that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offered him the job of president of the network in late 1966; but he decided to turn it down.

References

  1. ↑ "Hamilton at the top of CBC's list". (www.raisethehammer.org). Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  2. ↑ Former Hamilton/Niagara Area Radio Stations - Canadian Communications Foundation.
  3. ↑ Marr, Lisa (24 October 2014). "Source Cable sold to Rogers in $160M deal". Hamilton Spectator. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 "CBC announces location of Hamilton service" Archived 2013-02-04 at the Wayback Machine . Broadcaster, February 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ Dunphy, Bill (2012-05-09). "CBC Hamilton launches digital service". The Hamilton Spectator . Retrieved 2012-05-09.
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